https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/21/h-1b-foreign-worker-visa-fate-of-trumps-changes-unclear-but-work-ban-for-h-4-spouses-unlikely/

President Joe Biden’s immigration plan signals changes to employment of skilled foreign workers, but whether reforms made in the last days of the Trump administration will stand remains unclear. One Trump policy has already been shelved.

Experts believe, however, that a long-running but never-delivered-on promise by the administration of former President Donald Trump to strip work authorization from spouses of workers on the H-1B visa and on track for green cards will not survive. An estimated 90,000 to 100,000 spouses on the H-4 visa, mostly Indian women and many in the Bay Area, have been facing the prospect of losing their right to work since the rule was proposed in 2017.